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Compel wrote: I finished Rise of the Tomb Raider. - It's probably been my game of the year (If you count Arkham Knight as being last years game).
In saying that, my computers been mostly out of commission for the past 5 months so... I've basically got Fallout 4, Overwatch and Tomb Raider. So um... Yeah.
Rise of the Tomb Raider it is!
I'm currently working my way through Tomb Raider. Really liked the previous one and so far this one seems just as good
Also getting through Doom and about to start another Mass Effect playthrough (probably only 2 and 3 this time, I love the first but man is the gunplay in it clunky and the biotics are overpowered as hell! ).
The Laws of Thermodynamics:
1) You cannot win. 2) You cannot break even. 3) You cannot stop playing the game.
Colonel Flagg wrote:You think you're real smart. But you're not smart; you're dumb. Very dumb. But you've met your match in me.
So after some earlier annoyance I dived back into Mordheim with the Undead DLC, and I think my mind is offically blown. Either that or the Undead are silly good, my Vampire lord alongside a pair of Ghouls tore appart a Skaven warband while my Zombies lurched around and gatherd warpstone
A game where half the players carry magnetic mines, but tanks don't have the option for zimmerit.
(History buffs will know that only the Germans used anti-magnetic protection on their tanks in the field. ...And that this quickly went out of use seeing as nobody was using magnetic mines > recoilless rifles were much more effective. Tell that to these devs though). FYI 90% of all tanks in that game are destroyed by those mines. As a side not actual tank shells do about a fifth of the damage.
An alternative to the above would be "why not to play free to play arcady games".
My favorite game of Stellaris so far which has involved me being stuck in a little corner of the galaxy, sandwiched between a gargantuan despotic empire, and a somewhat more gargantuan fallen empire.
They hate each other far more than they even notice me, and that's how i plan to win.
Compel wrote: Well, with Rogue One out, I was in a mood to play a proper Star Wars game.
That was a really good game. Too bad i only rented it on the console. Worst way to play the game as you had to flip between weapons and force powers in the most inefficient way possible.
A game where half the players carry magnetic mines, but tanks don't have the option for zimmerit.
(History buffs will know that only the Germans used anti-magnetic protection on their tanks in the field. ...And that this quickly went out of use seeing as nobody was using magnetic mines > recoilless rifles were much more effective. Tell that to these devs though). FYI 90% of all tanks in that game are destroyed by those mines. As a side not actual tank shells do about a fifth of the damage.
An alternative to the above would be "why not to play free to play arcady games".
Mind expounding on that? I got a friend who's being driven to distraction by the tanks in H&G because of how much anti-tank rockets cost.
GENERATION 8: The first time you see this, copy and paste it into your sig and add 1 to the number after generation. Consider it a social experiment.
If yer an Ork, why dont ya WAAAGH!!
M.A.V.- if you liked ChromeHounds, drop by the site and give it a go. Or check out my M.A.V. Oneshots videos on YouTube!
Finished Titanfall 2's campaign, /singletear, been dropping in the multiplayer since.
Also started Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, it's cool so far, but I'm not seeing much different between this one and it's predecessor - which is good, I LOVED Human Revolution.
Downloaded MWO again as well to scratch that 'mech-sim itch, it's still frustrating at times given how poorly teammates interact, but gameplay is still solid.
Also been nipping at Diablo 3 as well every now and then trying to finish off my Season 8 bits for the new stash tab. It's a giant pain in the ass.
Shadowkeepers (4000 points)
3rd Company (3000 points)
If you're looking for other Mech games, you should check out M.A.V.- I got a link in my signature.
It's not quite a sim, but it's being made as a spiritual successor to Chromehounds if you enjoyed that game. Cheap, and the community, though small, is pretty great.
GENERATION 8: The first time you see this, copy and paste it into your sig and add 1 to the number after generation. Consider it a social experiment.
If yer an Ork, why dont ya WAAAGH!!
M.A.V.- if you liked ChromeHounds, drop by the site and give it a go. Or check out my M.A.V. Oneshots videos on YouTube!
I picked up XCOM enemy unknown for cheap a few days back, partly inspired by comments from Dakka, and I adore it.
It's so easy to just play "one more mission" until 3AM, but I really like the level of tactical thinking involved.
It's a bit like a cross between Chess and 40K, I suppose, but there's something about it that I really enjoy - the feeling of satisfaction when you make it through a mission without anyone ending up in the infirmary afterwards, or the relief when you take down a barrage-charging Sectopod on a 35% chance shot, is awesome. Great game.
A game where half the players carry magnetic mines, but tanks don't have the option for zimmerit.
(History buffs will know that only the Germans used anti-magnetic protection on their tanks in the field. ...And that this quickly went out of use seeing as nobody was using magnetic mines > recoilless rifles were much more effective. Tell that to these devs though). FYI 90% of all tanks in that game are destroyed by those mines. As a side not actual tank shells do about a fifth of the damage.
An alternative to the above would be "why not to play free to play arcady games".
Mind expounding on that? I got a friend who's being driven to distraction by the tanks in H&G because of how much anti-tank rockets cost.
A history of the tanks in that game: tanks were introduced, alongside AT ranged weapons. Infantry complained they couldn't beat tanks, so AT grenades were added. They still complained, so Tank Destroyers were added. They continued to complain, so we got H3 Magnetic Mines.
Tankies face palmed that the infantry weren't happy they couldn't destroy them with conventional weapons....
Tanks in Heroes and Generals have high armour values and bounce off ill angled shots. Tank vs Tank combat is scaled based on the bore and length of your gun and the ammunition it uses. A Sherman can beat a Panther by shooting it in the right place, a Panther can take out a Sherman with ease. Its all about getting the drop on each other and placing shots.
Meanwhile infantry have to accomplish the same thing, but with man portable weapons instead of tank shells. Panzerfaust are crap, not for realism's sake, but because how easy they are to attain. The game's balanced so if you encounter a tank the infantry should call in their own vehicles to take it out.
However... Well, infantry don't play like that. Everyone wants to be a one man army and we see little teamwork. Instead what we eventually got was H3 Mines.
As things are now the rock/ paper/ scissors between the different tanks and recoilless rifles is made entirely moot by infantry with H3 mines. Any tank in the game can be destroyed in 2 hits from those things placed anywhere in the hull. For context, A Tiger II takes upwards of 6 hits to kill from a tank destroyer.
Your average Rambo player doesn't like not being able to kill everything, so we're in the current situation. Besides ignoring that half the players in the game sit in bushes sniping instead of taking points (commonly points are lost to single men because nobody wants to defend - its someone else's problem - "I have kills to farm elsewhere"). The problem is, they added those mines - but didn't change any of the other weapons to account for them. So now we have a super cheap AT weapon which everyone uses, whilst saying everything else is under powered.
There's a patch coming to give tanks better armour, but that will probably not change the H3 Mine meta. The devs are more concerned about adding more content and making the game even more pay to win than it already is, whilst ignoring balance. As an indication of this the devs just released a patch which included planes, which was publicly announced, but a few days later - without telling anyone - increased the costs of all soldier career upgrades by at least 150% (this a month after decreasing the amount of currency players gained per match).
To cut a long story short, the game acts like its historically accurate, but wears its free to play nature openly. If Red Orchestra updated its graphics a bit and added some progression I'd be into that, though there's always the Vietnam one coming out. As it stands right now I'd really deter anyone from playing that game as its just going further downhill.
Wyrmalla wrote: [ If Red Orchestra updated its graphics a bit and added some progression I'd be into that, though there's always the Vietnam one coming out.
RO2 looks better than H&G and it actually has functional hitboxes which is apparently slightly important for FPS games. RO2 is the only multiplayer FPS game that I play with any regularity.
I first played H&G when it was still in beta and the game hasn't really changed all that much, its fun for a while but it's extremely grindy and the actual game itself is pretty glitchey and not well balanced.
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I really should start playing Red Orchestra. Or maybe the Pacific version. I've got them both in my Steam library, but haven't done much past the tutorial.
And speaking of Steam...
Steam's Winter Sale just started. Unsurprisingly, Steam is experiencing unusually heavy load issues right now.
@Wyrmalla- Ah, I see. It's that the game was designed as a more realistic game, but players play it as a Battlefield-alike. Gotcha.
I'll have to mention that to my buddy. His biggest complaint is that infantry anti-tank is more expensive than tanks (if you're specialized as a tanker- he likes Recon).
GENERATION 8: The first time you see this, copy and paste it into your sig and add 1 to the number after generation. Consider it a social experiment.
If yer an Ork, why dont ya WAAAGH!!
M.A.V.- if you liked ChromeHounds, drop by the site and give it a go. Or check out my M.A.V. Oneshots videos on YouTube!
Yeah, sorry, went on a bit of a rant there. That's pretty much the summary of the Reddit page too.
I did play recon at one point, but they're pointless now too. Infantry can take scopes too. They're not as good, but a scope's a scope. The problem with snipers, and well tanks too, is that the game doesn't give a crap about your kills. Everything's centred around capturing points. I've had 30/1 kill death ratios in games, but lost out to 9/4 KD guys because they were on points. ...Which is fine. ...But well, everyone's obsessed about kills in that game oddly - meaning that despite the radical difference in value -people still focus on the kills (your average point is typically held by zero to one guys and lost to a single guy just walking into it).
So yes, not to go off on one, but its a game which is developed by people who want to make fun bits and bobs, but is pushed in an entirely different direction by the market and player base. Were it not free to play then perhaps it'd be different. As it is right now the game at first glance looks like a semi-realistic WWII game, but at higher levels descends into grinding and banging your head against the wall with its mechanics.
(And if you *say* your game is set in 1944-45, FFS devs actually bother to do some research. The Germans all wear grey. H3 Mines are still being used as opposed to recoiless rifles. The Germans still have paratroopers - and not only that they're somehow armed with FG-42s. The Americans are using interwar tanks which didn't even see any combat use. The MG-42 has a slow rate of fire...)
...I'd play Red Orchestra 2, but it must have been the lighting or something when I installed it, but it looked a lot like Mount and Blade Warband. :/
I'm playing some more Dead by Daylight, I got a steam card for Xmas and I bought ALL the DLC for it (everything except for the Last Breath, which I already owned). So worth it
TheEyeOfNight- I swear, this thread is 70% smack talk, 20% RP organization, and 10% butt jokes
TheEyeOfNight- "Ordo Xenos reports that the Necrons have attained democracy, kamikaze tendencies, and nuclear fission. It's all tits up, sir."
Space Marine flyers are shaped for the greatest possible air resistance so that the air may never defeat the SPACE MARINES!
Sternguard though, those guys are all about kicking ass. They'd chew bubble gum as well, but bubble gum is heretical. Only tau chew gum
For a game where the only real interactions with the story is either mixing drinks or downing beers, it's surprisingly engaging, making for one of the better narrative games I've played this year.
Also played through the new Payday 2 heists with my brother and we did some more work on our underground bunker in 7 Days to Die, which is slowly becoming something of a Vault Tec thing as we add in more and more rooms.
That is a good game (and I fully admit I picked it up because it looked pretty ).
Meanwhile I've modded skyrim to gak (~350 installed mods so far, and I keeps having to merge them to get the esp count below 200). I'm amazed it's still running smoothly.
Homosexuality is the #1 cause of gay marriage.
kronk wrote: Every pizza is a personal sized pizza if you try hard enough and believe in yourself.
sebster wrote: Yes, indeed. What a terrible piece of cultural imperialism it is for me to say that a country shouldn't murder its own citizens
BaronIveagh wrote: Basically they went from a carrot and stick to a smaller carrot and flanged mace.
I bought Deus Ex Mankind Divided today. Skipped out on the DLC, not something I normally do but all the reviews were utterly horrific.
I also picked up Rise of the Tomb Raider Endurance Mode. I dunno if I'll ever play it though, but... Hey, concept seemed intriguing. Tomb raider meets Don't Starve
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Started a new game both in Pillars Of Eterinty and The Banner Saga 2.
In pillars I am curretly playing as a warrior in seartch of answers and a new home, just finished the first act and I gotta say this game is looking to take the place Baldurs Gate 2 Shadows Of Amn had for so long.
The Banner Saga however breaks my hearth each time I play it, many manly teats have had been so far.
VA-11 Hall-A is fun. Nice work by the group who did it. I understand there's a demo for it that takes you through the corgi party mentioned at the start of the game. I haven't tracked it down, though.
I've played the DX:MD DLC. IMO, they're good, but not worth the full price. Get them on sale.
Since Steam is having their annual Winter Sale, I decided to go ahead and buy Kerbal Space Program. I'm working my way through the tutorials right now, and the game looks to be great fun! I hope to be sending Kerbals into space on my own very soon!
My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/7/24, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~16000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Imperial Knights: ~2300 | Leagues of Votann: ~1300 | Tyranids: ~3400 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000 | Kruleboyz: ~3500 | Lumineth Realm-Lords: ~700
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2024: 40 | Total models painted in 2025: 25 | Current main painting project: Tomb Kings
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The Grotsnik Corp Bump Feelerer 9,000. It only looks like several bricks crudely gaffer taped to a cricket bat.
Grotsnik Corp. Sorry, No Refunds.
Currently playing to Europa Universalis 4, as ottomans, to try to get their job done of invading Europe. Unfortunatly, Poland and Lithuania formed the Two Nations Republic, which is quite threatening and puts my plans in danger...
40k: Necrons/Imperial Guard/ Space marines
Bolt Action: Germany/ USA
Project Z.
"The Dakka Dive Bar is the only place you'll hear what's really going on in the underhive. Sure you might not find a good amasec but they grill a mean groxburger. Just watch for ratlings being thrown through windows and you'll be alright." Ciaphas Cain, probably.
And VA-11 Hall-A is done. Well, first play through at least, hello N+!
I loved it though, it was a good arc that wasn't too long, had fun characters and was full of delicious narrative flavour. Plus the good ending really felt like a good one.